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Re:Hotcaml: An OCaml interpreter with watching and reloading by chrischen on Thursday January 20, 2022 @12:36AM (#30005126)
All the companies using Rescript (formerly ReasonML + Bucklescript compiler) and ones using Reasonml right now are effectively using Ocaml. It allows you to run Ocaml but target web browsers or Nodejs.

This includes apps like TinyMCE, ahrefs, and around 50% of messenger.com code [1].

[1] https://reasonml.github.io/blog/2017/09/08/messenger-50-reas...

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Re:Hotcaml: An OCaml interpreter with watching and reloading by yawaramin on Thursday January 20, 2022 @04:27PM (#30015302)
Just fyi, Ahrefs and probably some others in that list were using OCaml way before Reason came along. Ahrefs' web crawler (the second biggest after Google) is actually written in OCaml (native).
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Re:Hotcaml: An OCaml interpreter with watching and reloading by chrischen on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:33PM (#30016984)
Also the prototype of React, and the creator also went on to make ReasonML: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15209814
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